Behold! Brand new branding for Harris Hill

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1996-1999

Legend has it that our quest to provide a better recruitment service for charities began above a shop in Kingston in 1996. Sadly there's no trace to be found of our '90s logo, but if what followed was considered an improvement, it looks like we've all had a lucky escape.

2000

Our very first website was unleashed upon the world, proudly emblazoned with this extraordinary creation.

The calligraphy! The shadowing! The overall sense of funeral home! It’s really quite...something. As for the tagline below it:

‘Where did you want those capital letters and quote marks?’

‘Oh, just put them anywhere you like’

To be fair, it was a different time. The 1800s, by the look of it. Still, things could only get better, right?

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2002

I may have spoken too soon. By 2002 the world had discovered you could animate parts of your website and everyone was at it. It could have things that moved or flashed. It could have video-like transitions. It could fail to run on most computers and that would just show how cutting-edge you were.

Our contribution was to greet visitors to our second website with a mysterious blue circle, upon which the names of our specialisms would gradually appear, sliding to various points around the circle, and when you woke up three hours later you'd be looking at this wilfully-impractical wonder, for which the brief was presumably 'ill-advised and increasingly desperate Top of the Pops rebrand circa 1994'.

However, we did at least provide a ‘Skip intro’ button, which in the absence of any earlier sightings I can only conclude we invented, so that’ll be £20 million or so please, Netflix.

2004

A rather more sensible approach had entered the building by the time of the next update, notable for introducing the ‘charity recruitment specialists’ tagline, and for being the first Harris Hill logo you could send to a merchandise printer without reducing them to tears.

Bravo and branded stress balls all round.

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2007

We can't show you our late-noughties website as only the text will display these days. We don’t know what was wrong with the imagery, but when even the internet refuses to show it, it’s surely a bit of a concern.

However, other sources show that 2004’s red logo lived on, later joined by assorted purple variants marking the launch of our Executive business.

2010

As political power in the UK switched from red to blue, so too did our logo. Coincidence? Almost certainly, but the 2010 makeover is notable for introducing much of the branding you know and feel largely indifferent to today, with the debut of ‘bringing remarkable people together’ and our now-signature cyan.

Look, at no point did I say this was going to be exciting.

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2013-17

Some stability at last in the logo's turbulent life, sailing more or less unscathed through the next two generations of our site.

Both were externally designed and growing steadily more sophisticated, expanding significantly in 2016 with the launch of the Harris Hill Blog, greater focus on our specialisms, and a standalone site for Harris Hill Independent Schools. ​

2018

Bringing remarkable people together remains our mission to this day, but it's not the easiest thing to fit into a tiny box on Twitter (RIP).

The rise of all things digital called for something a little more compact, so restoring 'charity recruitment specialists’ fitted the bill, as well as providing a succinct description of what we do.

For the less observant browser, it also stops us being mistaken for a ski jump, animal hospital or cemetery (see below), or an amusement park, elementary school or nursing facility, although you'd forgive the confusion at times.

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